Arkady Strugatsky. Biography and creativity

Arkady Strugatsky is a classic of modern fiction. But few people think about reading exciting adventures, that this is social literature.

Strugatsky Arkady Natanovich. Biography of the writer

The capital of Adjara is proud of its talented son. In Batumi in 1925, a boy was born to Nathan Strugatsky and Natalia Litvincheva, who was named Arkady. My father worked as an editor of a large newspaper, and my mother was an honored teacher of the Russian language.

Almost until 1932, the family lived in Batumi, then Nathan Zalmanovich was sent by distribution to Leningrad. In 1933, his second son Boris was born. Birthday of Arkady Strugatsky on August 25, 1942 was not celebrated. At this time the city was already in blockade. Since the father had useful connections due to his profession, the Strugatsky family was decided to be one of the first to take the "road of life" to the Urals.

But little Boris was very sick, and the mother and youngest son remained in the besieged city. The 17th birthday of Arkady Strugatsky found in the village of Tashla, where he worked as the head of the purchase of products. By that time he had buried his father and dreamed of taking his mother out with his brother from Leningrad, which he managed only a year later. In 1943, when the boy was 18 years old, he was drafted into the Red Army.

Service and personal life

His service consisted of training in the Berdichev School, then in the Institute of Foreign Languages. By profession, a great writer - a translator from Japanese and English. Up to his dismissal he worked in the profession and lived in such cities as Kansk, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Moscow. In Kansk he married Inna Shershova, the second marriage with Elena Oshanina gave her daughter Maria, who married Egor Gaidar.

Career writer

Arkady Strugatsky began writing in Leningrad. But all the first works were lost during the evacuation. The first published story is "Bikini's Ashes" in 1956, co-authored with Lev Petrov. In 1964, the author was admitted to the Writers' Union. Virtually all books are written together with Brother Boris in the genre of fiction and utopia.

There are novels without co-authors. Under the pseudonym S. Yaroslavtsev, the "Expedition to the Underworld" (3 parts, 1974-1984), the tale of Nikita Vorontsov (1984), "The Devil among the People" (1993) and the unfinished novel of only 10 parts " Days of the Kraken "(1963).

In 1975 he wrote a script for Tajikfilm. In the working version, the name sounds like "The Gayurov Family". Since the writer perfectly mastered the English and Japanese languages, in his spare time he was engaged in translations of classics and contemporary foreign authors. His translations are highly appreciated for artistic realism.

Guy from the underworld

The story "The Guy from the Underworld" Arkady Strugatsky considered his favorite child. She is part of the cycle "The World of Noon" and was written in co-authorship with Brother Boris in 1973. The story of the story is not easy. The script was commissioned by Mosfilm and was selected by writers from five versions. Odessa studio also claimed to be shooting. But the film was banned for sharpness and untimeliness.

The plot for 1973 and the Soviet system was really non-trivial. On Earth, people of the future live in a social utopia. Justice and compassion are above all. With this mission they are watching the progress of foreign civilization, which is at the level of the 20th century. Wars, bloodshed, disease and cruelty dominate the planet of the Giant. For particularly dangerous tasks, they train "fighting cats".

Roots - one of the observers from Russia - rescues a young cadet of "cats" Gaga, wounded in battle, and brings him home for rehabilitation. The soldier, who was taught only to kill, overturns the world outlook. Gag tries to fight with obsession, clings to the familiar slogans of patriotism, runs home. But the grain of peace and pity has already sprouted in his soul.

Gag is the "guy from the underworld". Arkady Strugatsky became interested in the very fact of the external view of the Utopia of the "bright future". For the 20th century in the Soviet Union, this was an unacceptable luxury.

Best Bibliography

Arkady Strugatsky, whose books are incredibly popular, with his brother Boris created 27 novels and novels, 3 plays, 21 stories. The best works are:

• "Picnic on the sidelines" - a story about stalkers who secretly visit the place where aliens flew in, at an abandoned toy factory.
• "It's hard to be a god" - the story tells about Antonina, who is sent by the historical society to observe the planet Arkanar.
• "Monday begins on Saturday" - a humorous trilogy about an institution that deals with human happiness.
• "The City of Doom" - the story of an experiment when people from different eras are placed in the enclosed space of one city.
• "Inhabited Island" is a novel about the people of the future Earth, who by the will of the cosmos come to another planet and try not only to survive, but also to help representatives in solving pressing problems.
• "Hotel" The dead mountaineer "" - a detective with an unpredictable outcome.
• "Little Boy" is a story about the "cosmic Mowgli".

Between the lines

Arkady Strugatsky, whose books for decades divide by a million copies around the world, is not just a science fiction writer. In the heyday of his work, the Soviet system did not allow freethinking. Especially if it was expressed against the existing order in the country.

This was the period when for an anecdote in the kitchen sent to camps and prisons. But the writers, whose pen was moving real talent, could not remain silent. The protest against the system ruined a whole layer of gifted authors. The Strugatsky brothers found an original way out to their rebelliousness: fantasy. The censors did not read the meaning and did not take the Strugatskys' "tales" seriously. Thus, writers had an outlet to a thinking reader who saw between the lines the true meaning of the works.